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Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India

   For these last four weeks of free reading, I chose to read the Sacred Tales of India by D. N. Neogi. I am going to be doing my reading notes over part D today.

The Banished Girls

  • a Brahman widower had two daughters
  • the took care of the house by cooking and cleaning
  • From a very young age, they devoted themselves to Lakshmi
  • they didn't have much and they valued the purity of the world much more than riches
  • they prayed to the goddess that she grants their father a new wife with a son so he could carry the family name
  • the goddess did just so, and the next morning he fell in love with a beautiful woman
  • although she was beautiful she had a very spiteful mind
  • once she gave birth to her son, she began to grow a hatred for her stepdaughters
  • she saw them as witches when they prayed to their goddess and would talk her husbands ear off about them
  • it got so bad that the father decided to banish his own two daughters
  • one stormy night as they were sleeping, their father took them out in the middle of a forest and left them there
  • they woke up crying in agony
  • before they knew it an old lady was approaching them
  • she told them not to fear
  • and they realized it was no other than Lakshmi
  • two huntsmans for the prince approached the girls begging for water
  • they returned to the prince and the prince asked where they got such sweet water
  • they explained from two maidens in the forest
  • he wanted to meet them and protect them at all cost
  • the prince and one. of his men instantly fell in love with the two girls
  • they married 
  • it was crazy to see how two poor girls banished into the woods were married to the prince and his righthand man and were set out to being royalty
Bibliography Sacred Tales of India. D. N. Neogi. The Banished Girls. Part D

(Image of the goddess Lakshmi)


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